Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion.
Moving from viruses, vaccines, and copycat murder to gay panics, xenophobia, and psychopaths, Transforming Contagion energetically fuses critical humanities and social science perspectives into a boundary-smashing interdisciplinary collection on contagion.
Contents Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject Breanne Fahs, Annika Mann, Eric Swank, and Sarah Stage Part I – Quarantine/Exposure 1. “A Proper Contagion”: The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn C.C Wharram 1. Before the Cell, There Was Virus: Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion Through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology Annu Dahiya 1. Social (Ir)Responsibility: Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity Rachel Conrad Bracken 1. “Radiophobia” and the Politics of Social Contagion Majia Nadesan Part II – Flesh/Spirit 1. Isn’t Contagion Just a Metaphor?Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year Annika Mann 1. Contagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth Century American Fiction Justin Rogers - Cooper 1. Performance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition: Performative Revision and Subversion Patrick Maley Part III – Madness/Reason 1. Viral Murder: Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs Marlene Tromp 1. Am I a Psychopath? Sadie Mohler 1. Cult of the Penis: Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy Michelle Ashley Gohr Part IV – Revolution/Bureaucracy 1. Fear of the Diseased Immigrant: Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging Louis Mendoza 1. Prophylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the Soviet-Era Baltic States Edward Cohn 1. Sexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements Eric Swank 1. Words on Fire: Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto Breanne Fahs Index Acknowledgments About the Contributors
Contents Introduction: Contagion as Unruly Subject Breanne Fahs, Annika Mann, Eric Swank, and Sarah Stage Part I – Quarantine/Exposure 1. “A Proper Contagion”: The Inoculation Narrative and the Immunological Turn C.C Wharram 1. Before the Cell, There Was Virus: Rethinking the Concept of Parasite and Contagion Through Contemporary Research in Evolutionary Virology Annu Dahiya 1. Social (Ir)Responsibility: Vaccine Exemption and the Ethics of Immunity Rachel Conrad Bracken 1. “Radiophobia” and the Politics of Social Contagion Majia Nadesan Part II – Flesh/Spirit 1. Isn’t Contagion Just a Metaphor?Reading Contagion in Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year Annika Mann 1. Contagious Accumulation and Racial Capitalism in Late Nineteenth Century American Fiction Justin Rogers - Cooper 1. Performance and the Contagious Swirl of Dramatic Tradition: Performative Revision and Subversion Patrick Maley Part III – Madness/Reason 1. Viral Murder: Contagious Killings and Epidemic Beliefs Marlene Tromp 1. Am I a Psychopath? Sadie Mohler 1. Cult of the Penis: Male Fragility and Phallic Frenzy Michelle Ashley Gohr Part IV – Revolution/Bureaucracy 1. Fear of the Diseased Immigrant: Contagion, Xenophobia, and Belonging Louis Mendoza 1. Prophylactic Policing and the Epidemiology of Dissent in the Soviet-Era Baltic States Edward Cohn 1. Sexual Politics and Contagious Social Movements Eric Swank 1. Words on Fire: Radical Pedagogies of the Feminist Manifesto Breanne Fahs Index Acknowledgments About the Contributors
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